EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, led the world wide storage software market in total revenue for the 11th consecutive quarter in the third quarter of 2005, according to a report released today by IDC [a]. During the third quarter EMC also led the storage replication market with more than twice the revenue share of the next closest provider, and the storage resource management (SRM) market with more than four times the revenue share of the next closest provider. In the back-up and archive segment EMC continued to grow revenue share and outpace the total market as well as the segment revenue leader.
In the Middle East, EMC executives highlighted storage as the fastest-growing segment of the company’s overall business. “2005 has proved to be the year in which regional organizations really began to grasp the concept of and value delivered by information lifecycle management (ILM). As software is the ‘glue’ that enables any viable ILM strategy, we anticipate that EMC’s software solutions are going to be a major engine for growth in 2006,” said Mohammed Amin, regional manager, EMC Middle East.
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is driven in large part by software-enabled intelligence in the information infrastructure. EMC’s software offering includes a wide range of products to address customers’ most pressing needs for consolidation, business continuity, recovery and archive, compliance, content management, virtualization, resource management and data protection.
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[a] Source: IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker Q3 2005; EMC has had the #1 revenue share in storage software since the inception of the IDC Storage Software Tracker in Q4’2002; all comparisons included in this release are year over year unless noted; EMC is reported as the combined entity of EMC
and Legato prior to CYQ4 2003.
